On September 06th – 09th 2018, has been taking place the Days of the Targoviste City. During the first day of the event, ATS presented the Beaconing tools in an interactive way, by creating an entertaining GLP, were participants had the possibility to explore the city and learn in the same time. The GLP included one location based game tool and two minigames.
Read MoreA Special Issue has been called for papers on Gamification of industrial systems. http://journal.seriousgamessociety.org/index.php/IJSG/announcement/view/13 To address today’s industrial challenges, we invite submission of original papers on the application of gamification in industry; each submission will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, significance, and clarity. Topics might include one of the following aspects of this special issue but other relevant topics will also be considered: Gamification of industrial settings Ecological verification and validation of gamification in industry Gamification of design and operational processes Scalability of gamification and its impact on human and production processes Gamification of employees’ training Team play in industrial production Self-efficacy evaluation Study on cost effectiveness analysis of gamification application industry Employees’ acceptance of gamification concepts Study on the mode of usage of gamification in industrial work environment Game culture in industry The interplay between the gamification concepts and the processes and corporate structure Submitted papers must describe original research which is not published or under revision by other journals, conferences or books. Authors are responsible for understanding and adhering to submission guidelines published on the IJSG website: (http://journal.seriousgamessociety.org).
Read MoreIván Pérez Colado (UCM) presented a full research paper during the VS-Games Conference 2018 held in Würzburg (Germany) from the 5th to the 7th of September 2018. The paper presented was titled Multi-level Game Learning Analytics for Serious Games and comprised the work done partly in the project BEACONING regarding Game Learning Analytics for Serious Games for multi-level analytics. The full program of the conference can be found here. The slides of the presentation can be found at SlideShare.
Read MoreAt this year’s edition of National and International Conference on Virtual Learning, held in the historical city of Alba Iulia, SIVECO Romania proudly presents Beaconing, the eLearning platform that creates new models and practices of teaching and learning The Romanian IT company coordinates the 15 partners consortium that created Beaconing, a teaching and digital learning platform that integrates technologies, pedagogical and social perspectives, using pervasive, context-aware and gamified approaches. The innovative project will be presented in front of an audience made of the most important actors in education, in the historical halls of the “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia.
Read MoreDuring the 17th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL) held in ChiangMai, Thailand, from the 22nd to the 24th of August, 2018, Professor Baltasar Fernández Manjón (UCM) presented the full paper Making Understandable Game Learning Analytics for Teachers. ICWL is an annual international conference on Web-based learning, founded by the Hong Kong Web Society. The 17th ICWL Conference featured a technical program of refereed papers selected by the international program committee, keynote addresses and a Doctoral consortium. Game-based learning and Serious Games appeared among the topics of interest of the conference.
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